Pollen from the Deep-Sea: A Breakthrough in the Mystery of the Ice Ages.

ABSTRACT: Pollen from deep-sea sedimentary sequences provides an integrated regional reconstruction of vegetation and climate (temperature, precipitation, and seasonality) on the adjacent continent. More importantly, the direct correlation of pollen, marine and ice indicators allows comparison of the atmospheric climatic changes that have affected the continent with the response of the Earth's other reservoirs, i.e., the oceans and cryosphere, without any chronological uncertainty. The study of long continuous pollen records from the European margin has revealed a changing and complex interplay between European climate, North Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SSTs), ice growth and decay, and high- and low-latitude forcing at orbital and millennial timescales. These records have shown that the ampli

SUBMITTER: Sanchez Goni MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5790801 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature